(So perhaps all the brou-ha-ha over events this election year have the positive effect of increased awareness on the part of the voters on how their system actually works. Or doesn’t, as the case may be…)

The point about some of them being elected officials is a good one to point out… Yet another proxy for actual Democracy.

I like your proposal, though.

Under the party’s delegate selection rules, the number of pledged delegates allocated to each of the 50 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. is determined using a formula based on three main factors:

The proportion of votes each state gave to the Democratic candidate in the last three presidential elections (2004, 2008, and 2012)
The number of electoral votes each state has in the United States Electoral College.
The stage of the primary season when they hold their contest. States and territories that hold their contests later are given bonus seats

Bit I think you might be asking what is the ratio of participants to normal delegates.

The answer is that it is wildly variable.

Super Delegates, however, are not voted into place. Hence, since the Super Delegates “elect themselves” to play that role, we have a 1:1 ratio for them.

Ergo, a Super Delegate has a “voting weight” equal to ‘N’ times that of a primary (citizen) voter. (Here we’re restricting our discourse to the first balloting in the convention, and making the assumption that the normal delegates will vote according to their pledged candidates faithfully.)

What is the typical range for this weighting factor that makes these Super Delegates so Super in terms of influencing an election outcome?